Social Costs: The Career-Family Tradeoff

Cram, Bridgette; Alkadry, Mohamad G.; Tower, Leslie E.

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9897-6_27

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“…Women in top positions tend to have fewer children than their male counterparts (Eurostat, 2018). According to Cram et al (2016), while it is rare for either men or women to achieve a successful career and devote themselves to family, men more often choose to prioritise career success over familial obligations and women the opposite. Women also face disproportionate costs in pursuing a successful corporate career, as, due to the pressures between career and family, women might not have children at all, have fewer children than desired, or delay having children (Cram et al, 2016).…”

Section: Gendered Structures Of Work Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Cram et al (2016), while it is rare for either men or women to achieve a successful career and devote themselves to family, men more often choose to prioritise career success over familial obligations and women the opposite. Women also face disproportionate costs in pursuing a successful corporate career, as, due to the pressures between career and family, women might not have children at all, have fewer children than desired, or delay having children (Cram et al, 2016). This finding corroborates studies that attribute postponement of the first child to the long period of education and the time necessary to build a career despite optimal (biological) timing (Kontula, 2018;Mills et al, 2011).…”

Section: Gendered Structures Of Work Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’

Niemistö

Hearn

Kehn

et al. 2021

Work, Employment and Society

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This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR method through 81 iterative, in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant forms of discursive talk emerge: ‘It takes two to tango’, ‘It’s all about time management’ and ‘Good motherhood 2.0’. Though Finland provides a seemingly egalitarian Nordic welfare state context, with the ‘Finnish Dream’, women face contradictions between expectations of women as full-time ideal workers pursuing masculinist careers and continuing responsibilities at home, performing ‘good motherhood’. The women’s double strivings meet the double constraining demands of these ideals. The gendered pressures are imposed on the women by themselves, male colleagues, the organisation more broadly and society, leading the women to enact a form of ‘bounded individualism’.

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Section: Gendered Structures Of Work Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%